Anger at George Floyd’s death has spurred protests in dozens of cities — including Binghamton, Syracuse, and Utica — over police brutality, the disproportionate health and economic burdens the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed in communities of color, and the country’s history of racism.
Parishes around the Diocese of Syracuse resumed public Masses May 30 and 31, the first public liturgies celebrated since Bishop Douglas J. Lucia suspended them March 16 amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia issued issued a statement May 31 in the wake of protests and unrest following the death of George Floyd.
The U.S. Catholic bishops said May 29 they “are broken-hearted, sickened and outraged to watch another video of an African American man being killed before our very eyes.”
